Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-02
CAREER OLE LOHN ROACH.

Says the Public Ledger: In the career OF
John Roach, shipbuilder, there were leading
characteristics, the consideration OF which
should give encouragement to every boy,
however poor he may be, who has the
great qualities of thrift and industry. When
Mr.. Roach came to this country, boy OF
16, he was almost penniless, and, fail
ing to find his relatives, was frendless as
we'll. He had great difficulty in getting en-
ployment, and walked from New York city
to Troy, searching for work. In the latter
place he was employed as a laborer in
brick yard, and in six years became fore
man. But the work was distasteful, and
he found other employment in iron works,
where he acquired new trade. His first
savings of 81 800 were lost by the failure of
his employer. But he opened little shop
of his own. Here he labored faithfully,
accumulating another small amount OF cap
ital, which was all swept away by fire:
Again he went to work and earned and
saved enough money to enable him to buy
a farm in Illinois, but this venture failed,
and he walked back to New York city to
start again. He again started little shop
and was beginning to prosper, when the
war came and rapidly built up his business
into that of the Etna Iron Works. Exten-
sion followed extension with increase OF
business and capital, until he had in his
employ thousands of men and was estimat-
ed to be worth millions of dollars above
his liabilities. Mr.. Roach did great deal
of work for the Government, but much
more for private parties. When one looks
at q great machine shop, with its costly
tools, it seems impossible that any one can
start in small way and gradually develop
competing business, and yet nearly all
the great and successful enterprises that
now seem unapproachable have had this
history. The Baldwin Locomotive Works
developed from little shop almost with
out capital, the Disston Saw Wor ks from
a shop whose proprietor was the only
workman, and the S. S. White Dental De-
not from similar small beginnings. But it
requires years of heroic devotion and un-
tiring industry, as we'll as business abili-
ties, to achieve such results.
AS constructing mechanic Mr.. Roach
was master hand and master mind. lie
had q broad vision for big work and quick
eve for the numberless details involved in
the vast shipbuilding establishment and
other industrial works he conducted. He
had the organizing and administrative
faculties broadly developed. At home he
was a family man, domestic in his habits,
an affectionate husband and father; among
his employees kindly, considerate, the friend
of all; and he was a generous, charitable
man everywhere.
THE DECAY OF TEETH.-"It is fact too
well known to be emphasized" says DR..
Geo. b. Haiman, one Of the most expert
enced and skillful dentists of this city, "that
the early decay of teeth is almost universal
in this country. In the report of the Mas
sachusetts State board Of health for 1875 the
statement is made that 'of $50 school chill
dren under - years of age in Woburn, Lex
ington and Bedford, in 1874, $50, or two
thirds of them, had decayed teeth In
1874 out of 113 scholars in the Lawrence
primary school, Woburn, thirteen only were
fortunate in the possession Of sound teeth,
and cases are not rare where young persons
at the age of Is years are obliged to use
false teeth.
"What is the cause of this decay? Much
attention has been given to the solving OF
this difficult problem by members OF the
dental profession, and it is almost univer-
sally conceded that the general use of certain
kinds of food is one cause, and perhaps the
principal cause of decayed teeth.
"Dr. Ephraim Cutter, now of New York,
in the transactions of the New Hampshire
State Medical Society, 1876 illustrates this
view of the matter in this way: The
Chemical News he says, ascribes the pota-
to rot to deficiency of lime and magnesla
in the soil. Different observers give the
percentage of magnesia in the ash of sound
POTATOES at from 5 to 10 per cent. in the
diseased potatoes only 3.94 per cent. Anal
ysis shows over per cent. of lime in heal
thy potatoes, but in diseased potatoes only
LII per cent.
"a similar statement was made some
years ago by Professor Thorpe with regard
to diseased and healthy orange trees. IN
the former there was serious deficiency OF
lime and magnesia.
"The decay in potatoes, orange trees and
teeth is attended with parasitic vegetation
which is everywhere present. Now, as
the healthy potatoes and orange trees resent
the destructive influence of the cryptoga-
mic vegetation named, because they get
sufficiency of soluble mineral food, or lime
and magnesia, it is pertinent to ask if peo-
pie who suffer in the decaying teeth eat
enough soluble mineral food to make
healthy, solid and lasting teeth? Or, in
other words, is there any article of food
largely and universally used which is de-
ficient in soluble mineral element" "'-
JO,tH'S CINNAMON